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mealy en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈmiːli/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From meal + -y. Cognate with German mehlig.

Meanings

1. Resembling meal (the foodstuff).
   • Below the hole the mice made in the woodwork was a pile of mealy sawdust.
2. Of the pale yellow color of a canary.
   • That it is a cross-breed there can be no doubt, from the fact that after a year or two the brilliant colours, both orange and black, begin to fade—the orange fading into a mealy tint, and the black to a dingy grey. 1875, The Bird-Keeper's Guide and Companion, page 19:

Forms

Coordinates

grainy · floury

Deriveds

mealiness · mealily · mealy plum aphid · mealy-mouthed · mealybug · mealy bug · unmealy · mealywing

Relateds

cornmealy

Translations (15)

fur farinôs (resembling meal) · mi motuhanga (resembling meal) · es harinoso (resembling meal) · de mehlig (resembling meal) · fr farineux (resembling meal) · ro făinos (resembling meal) · pl mączny (resembling meal) · pt farinhento (resembling meal) · cs moučnatý (resembling meal) · pl mączysty (resembling meal) · bg брашнян (resembling meal) · gl fariñento (resembling meal) · mi māngaro (resembling meal) · el αλευρώδης (resembling meal) · cs moučný (resembling meal)

mealy en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈmiːli/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From meal + -y. Cognate with German mehlig.

Meanings

1. A canary of a pale yellow color.
   • The clear Norwich canaries, as well as the evenly marked, the crested, the ticked, the green, and the unevenly marked, are each divided into two separate classes, i.e., jonques and mealies. 1884, Robert Linlithgow Wallace, The Canary Book, page 225:
   • I know not, indeed, if the artist could give the beautiful orange which distinguish ^([sic]) the jonque, or the mellowness of tint that pervades the mealy. 1800, The New and Complete Canary-bird Fancier, page 8:

Forms

Coordinates

jonque